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Nvidia has made available its 391.01 WHQL driver release for GeForce GPUs, and with it comes 'Game Ready' optimizations for Final Fantasy XV, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, and World of Tanks 1.0. With regards to PUBG, Nvidia performed some internal benchmarking and found that GeForce GTX 1050 owners stand to see a 7 percent performance increase at 1920x1080. Likewise, Nvidia's benchmarks highlight the same performance gain for GeForce GTX 1080 owners at 2560x1440 and 3824x2160, and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti owners at 3840x2160. Here's a look at the full set of data: Bear in mind that these are Nvidia's benchmarks, not our own. That said, the testbed Nvidia used consisted of an Intel Core i7-7820X processor paired with 32GB of DDR4-2666 memory, running in Windows 10. A beefy system, in other words. As for Final Fantasy XV, a version for PC is launching a week from tomorrow. It will arrive to Windows with 4K support "and a ton of other enhancements and additions" that … [Read more...] about Nvidia claims new GPU drivers bump performance in PUBG by up to 7 percent

According to a report detailing the company's fiscal year ended December 2017, Vivendi posted revenues of $15.6 billion for the year, up 15 per cent year over year. Additionally, profits grew by 73.9 per cent year over year to $1.6 billion. Gameloft saw a 12 percent growth in revenues from advertising activities and sales via app stores, with more than 2.5 million downloads per day across all platforms in 2017. 65 percent of Gameloft’s revenues were generated by internally developed franchises from titles like Disney Magic Kingdoms and Asphalt 8: Airborne. The developer maintained an average of 2.5 million downloads per day throughout 2017, but its monthly active users dropped to 128 million while its daily active users fell to 15 million. The report noted that Gameloft is preparing to publish the MOBA Dungeon Hunter Champions and another Asphalt game titled Asphalt Legend in 2018. However, it did not mention the … [Read more...] about 65 percent of Gameloft’s revenue generated by internal projects

In a blog post published today, Game Dev Tycoon developer Patrick Klug pointed out how Google removed 77 percent of positive reviews written by Android players from the Google Play store. This is notable for other independent devs planning on releasing their title to Android devices, as Klug notes that this problem isn't an isolated incident. He traces it to some research that puts the blame on Google's algorithm for preventing fake reviews. Six days after releasing Game Dev Tycoon, Klug reports over two thousand players had rated the game with a 5.0 score. An hour later, 25 percent of those positive 5 star reviews were gone. Since then, 77 percent of positive reviews have been permanently removed. "We are not engaging in any dubious practices regarding reviews," writes Klug. "We don’t incentivize reviews, we don’t buy reviews, we don’t review the game ourselves and we don’t even tell our … [Read more...] about Google removes 77 percent of Game Dev Tycoon’s positive reviews

Intel today revealed additional information regarding its ongoing testing of the Meltdown and Spectre firmware patches it has released. To date, the company says it has released firmware updates for 90 percent of processors made in the past five years. That says nothing about processors from before that time, but that's a different topic. Intel executive VP and GM for the Data Center Group also mentions the reboot issues previous discussed and says that it's "making progress toward identifying the root cause" and will be "providing beta microcode to vendors for validation by next week." But the bigger topic is the performance testing results for data centers. While client systems are the least likely to be affected by the firmware and software updates, with generally negligible impacts to office tasks and even gaming, things become more complex when we enter the world of servers. Intel has so far only provided figures using industry standard benchmarks on dual-socket Xeon Platinum … [Read more...] about Intel reveals 0-25 percent performance impact from Meltdown and Spectre patches

Before I address the potentially confusing strapline above, let me tell you that digital storefront Fanatical is selling comedy physics puzzle game Human Fall Flat for £4.79/your regional equivalent. For a game that's genuinely laugh-out-loud funny, I think that's a good deal. It's even funnier in multiplayer mode, which is why Fanatical has discounted the game's two packs and four packs in earnest. I enjoyed my time arsing around in Human Fall Flat's single-player back in 2016, however its multiplayer mode is comedy gold—so long as you're prepared to lose friends as they turn seemingly straightforward tasks into inherently complex routines. Too many cooks spoil the broth, and all that. If that's your cup of tea, Fanatical is selling the Human Fall Flat two pack for £8.79 with 63 percent off, and the Human Fall Flat four pack for £12.99 with a 73 percent reduction. And while we're talking discounts, know that Fanatical has launched The Very Positive … [Read more...] about Get 60 percent off comedy physics puzzler Human Fall Flat